EPJ Web of Conferences (Jan 2019)

Optically induced transient enhancement of a structural order parameter

  • Porer M.,
  • Fechner M.,
  • Bothschafter E. M.,
  • Rettig L.,
  • Narayan A.,
  • Radovic M.,
  • Savoini M.,
  • Esposito V.,
  • Rittmann J.,
  • Kubli M.,
  • Kubacka T.,
  • Huber T.,
  • Neugebauer M.,
  • Abreu E.,
  • Grübel S.,
  • Beaud P.,
  • Ingold G.,
  • Lantz G.,
  • Parchenko S.,
  • Song S.,
  • Sato T.,
  • Aschauer U.,
  • Spaldin N.,
  • Johnson S. L.,
  • Staub U.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920507001
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 205
p. 07001

Abstract

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We photoexcite SrTiO3 and EuTiO3 in their purely soft-mode-driven structurally distorted phase and trace the structural order parameter via ultra-short x-rays. We observe a rapid decay for SrTiO3 and an intriguing transient enhancement for EuTiO3.